Overview
- Lawmakers approved the Domestic Violence Prevention and Protection Bill 2025, creating protection committees, protection officers, emergency protection orders and monetary relief, with the measure now before the Senate.
- The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women spotlighted online abuse under the UN theme to end digital violence, with the UN chief urging collective action.
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for nationwide efforts to end violence against women, stressing stronger implementation of existing protections.
- DRF logged 3,171 tech‑facilitated GBV complaints in 2024, the FIA processed 134,710 cybercrime complaints in 2023 with a conviction rate under 4%, and the NCCIA reported 171,600 complaints in its first full year.
- Pakistan’s last-place ranking in the WEF 2025 gender gap index and PDHS findings that nearly one in three married women faces spousal violence are feeding demands to criminalise deepfakes, build gender‑sensitive cyber units and expand public digital‑safety education.